Vai
Hammock
Vai, 1900-1932
Scroll
Vai
Hammock
Vai, 1900-1932
Physical Qualities
Cotton, 230 x 55 cm. (without poms-poms)
Credit Line
Gift of Catherine O'Carroll Bussell and Robert Bruce Bussell, Arlington, Virginia
Object Number
1998.433
Hammock in beige, black and red; six strips wide with an extra strip sewn down the center of one side. Designs in parallel lines and long triangles. Denticular designs are supplementary weft.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected in Liberia between 1923-1929 by the parents of donor (Bruce Bussell): Conrad Turner Bussell and Pauline Bussell. Mr. Bussell was sent by the U.S. Government under President Calvin Coolidge to survey the boundaries of Liberia. He was, instead, made Supervisor of Customs by President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia, and later made Financial Advisor to President King. Mrs. Bussell arrived in 1926.
